1. Operating Systems CS 3013/502

2. Topics Background Admin Stuff Motivation Objectives Operating Systems!

3. Professor Background Dr. Mark Claypool (professor, “Mark”) Systems guy –operating systems –distributed systems –collaborative systems –(multimedia performance) TRS-DOS, MS-DOS, Win95, Solaris WindowsNT/2000/XP and Linux

4. Student Background Who are you? –Name –Year (senior, grad student …) –Major (CS, EE, ND, Basket Weaving...) C experience Previous degree and where Operating Systems? Other

5. Syllabus Stuff http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/courses/502-Su05/ TAs: (Probably just me) Office hours: (by appointment) Email Text Book(s)

6. Course Structure Prerequisites –C programming (must) –Machine organization (recommended) + Chapter 2 in Silberchatz text –Unix (recommended) Grading –Exams (60% for 502, 50% for 3013) –Projects (40% for 502, 50% for 3013) –Attendance (100% … kidding)

7. Exams 60% of 502 grade, 50% of 3013 grade 2 exams for 502, 1 exam for 3013 Non-cumulative Closed-note Closed-book Closed-friend

8. Projects 2 projects for 3013, 3 projects for 502 –(maybe some extras) Implementation in Unix –If Windows, then you are on your own Solo Project 0 –Unix dabbling –Not due Project 1 –Due in about 2 weeks

9. Slides On the Web Powerpoint and PDF Caution! Don’t rely upon the slides alone! Use them as supplementary material –(come to class)

10. Why This Class? WPI CS requirements –“core area” for grads Combines CS concepts –algorithms, languages, data-structures, hardware –system design w/tradeoffs Better use of the computer C programming in Unix environment –Foundation for systems work, other courses Fun!